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• Title: Russell K. Skowronek and Charles R. Ewen, Eds. 2006. X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy (Resena de Libro)
• Author : Caribbean Studies
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 63 KB

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Russell K. Skowronek and Charles R. Ewen, eds. 2006. X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-8130-2875-2. Archaeology and Piracy--highly popular subjects on their own that together would make any History or Discovery Channel producer salivate. Archaeological investigation of early modern piracy holds promise because the documentary record (if not the secondary literature!) is fairly thin: Alexander Exquemelin's Buccaneers of the Americas, the enigmatic Charles Johnson's General History of the Pirates, and a few vice admiralty trials, log book entries, and colonial newspaper accounts make up the bulk of our evidence for the "Golden Age of Piracy" (1650-1730). Pirates themselves kept few records and deliberately hid much of their activities. Archaeology potentially offers an expansive new source for understanding pirates' world, their social organization, and their bloody business. Russell Skowronek and Charles Ewen tackle the question: can pirates be identified in the archaeological record independent of historical references? And if so, what would signature "pirate patterns" look like? (pp. 7, 295). The essays they present are a blend of site reports on specific pirate ships and places associated with pirates, broader conceptual considerations of pirates and their victims, and popular culture impressions of historical and present-day piracy (in the David Cordingly "fact and fiction" vein).

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